HRM

When I was working in this small company, I always encountered difficult situations at work. Since I knew the president of the company before entering the company, he offered me a job and I accepted the offer. So I did not have an interview. He put me in the small office with an older woman who was my manager. There were always only two of us in the office most of the time. People thought I was lucky because I got the job easily. The other people had to have an interview to enter the company, the president never treated me as any different after starting working. I was glad he treated all company members equally, but the manager did not like the fact that I entered the company because I knew the president for a long time. I was responsible, learned things very quickly, and did the tasks efficiently. However, she always judged me and complained I did not work hard. When I had family emergency or got sick, and was not able to go to work, she was very angry and thought I lied to her. I figured it out later but she reported her complaints to the president all the time. I felt very uncomfortable being in the same office with her and got very nervous to talk to her as well. Then, another company member realized something was going on between her and I, she helped me to work at a different office where I had to learn completely different tasks from my previous work. In fact, I did not have many things to do at the new office. I got bored and quit this job shortly after.

I think this could have been avoided if….

·      I had an interview, and talked with the manager before I started working with her, she may have known my personality or integrity more, and could have improved performance.

·      the company had solid management plans to train employees. Since it was a new and very small company, the company did not have many experiences and did not know how to develop the quality workforces.

·      we both could have communicated better and got along with eachother because there were only two of us worked together for one specific task. There was a lack of socialization between my manager and I.